Lack Of Education In Haiti

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I think that the most pressing societal problem that Haiti faces today is the lack of people who are educated; in a single word, I would say the problem is education. As we know it one of the biggest problems which can prevent a society or a country expanding or from development is the lack of education, in Haiti the greatest part of the population are analphabetic, some of them go to school and do not have the possibility to reach the secondary school even to be able to go to the university. Someone who attended only primary school do not mean anything in the educational ladder , the other problem is that there is not enough good school to educate the population, and the result we found until today is pollution, because there is not a place

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